Show HN: WAYF – A Simple Scheduling App

[runandrew]

https://wayf.vercel.app

A dead-simple web app to find the best time for your next meetup with friends. No logins, no bloat. Schedule with a link.

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When trying to schedule events with my friends, we often have a long text thread of sporadic dates and the group has to mentally combine all the messages to produce a date that works for all.

There are plenty of apps out there to coordinate scheduling, but I found many of them were bloated with features that didn't matter to us, required user sign ups and app downloads. This friction is enough for us to prefer rudimentary long text threads. I wanted something that I could post in the thread once, my friends can add their availability on their own time (and can edit), and we can continue on our conversation.

WAYF (When are you free?) is a fun side project that solves this issue. Bare-bones scheduling for what days you are free. No user accounts, no downloads, just paste a link and anyone can schedule. It's completely free.

I hope you like it and find it useful, I would love feedback.

[AVincentInSpace]

Looks great! Will be super handy scheduling my next DnD game. The one thing it's missing though is allowing people to specify times as well as dates

[SushiHippie]

My only nitpick is that the URLs contain a complete UUID. I personally think that shorter URLs like https://wayf.social/a4YnB would look nicer when shared in a chat.

But otherwise UI/UX look and feel great!

[Jnr → SushiHippie]

UI looks like shadcn to me. https://ui.shadcn.com/

[beeb → SushiHippie]

Something like nanoid would be nice

[Tistron]

I've looked around for something like this also, and I found https://lettucemeet.com which I often use for this.

It doesn't require signing in, and it allows adding what times you are available.

It's a bit unintuitive in where the buttons are placed so some people sometimes struggle to figure out how to add their availability, but generally I like it.

[wonger_ → Tistron]

I've used these alternatives:

http://whenisgood.net/Create

https://schej.it

No accounts necessary, and they handle timezones too

[_z2co → Tistron]

That's great! It has a similar selection UI to https://www.when2meet.com/, but has much better mobile support. It'd be nice to have a mode for scheduling weekdays in the abstract (e.g. I'm free on Thursdays at noon), but it's always possible to use a random week as an example.

[ako → Tistron]

Date picker (https://datumprikker.nl/, dutch focus but has english as an option) seems similar. Any significant differences between these tools?

[vlz]

Cool, have been searching for something like this.

Small suggestion: would put on the page what the name abbreviates. Or is "When are you free" so universal? (I didn't get it before seeing your post, but am not a native speaker). Also do you pronounce it like "wife" or like "waive"?

[chrisweekly → vlz]

As a native English speaker (online for decades), I can confirm "WAYF" is not a universally-recognized acronym. I'd pronounce it "waif" (which is not quite archaic, but a relatively rarely-used word).

[frederikbmm → vlz]

WAYF could also be "where are your from". At least in Denmark (https://www.wayf.dk/).

[urbandw311er]

It’s a promising start - as you say, it’s certainly barebones!

Poss roadmap items:

* Can the original organiser set some limits around which days can be selected? Or even lock it down so _only_ those dates can be chosen from?

* Introduce the concept of times too - what’s the expected duration of the event? This should help participants choose their availability.

* Edit your responses.

* Leave your email to be kept up-to-date with changes.

* Main display of results from all participants - add a calendar view.

* Highlight or sort the most popular/feasible dates

[jadayesnaamsi → urbandw311er]

All those are available in Rally, which is OSS. It is great that WAYF offers something completely bare bone without the features you are mentioning, IMHO.

https://rallly.co/

[ponyous → urbandw311er]

All of that is part of doodle poll - the tool I use regularly for this kind of stuff.

[urbandw311er → ponyous]

You don't say whether or not you think this adds weight to the OP considering these features, or the opposite.

[eiiot]

I’ve used https://www.when2meet.com for an hourly version of this for years, and never had any issues with it.

[HerrBertling]

Looks great. Tiny UX nitpick: The light/dark mode switch can be simplified. I am in one of those states already so this is basically a toggle. No need to show two options in a modal.

[andrewfromx → HerrBertling]

oh i liked that. I was in dark mode and the last thing i wanted was for the background to go all white but I was curious what that menu option did so I clicked it. Maybe there will be 3 options in the future too!

[noufalibrahim]

Excellent app. Very useful and I personally have faced the same situation oyu just did. I would very much like support for times as well as dates taking into account timezones. As it stands, it doesn't solve my problem but is concrete step in the right direction.

[mdrzn]

Well done, I would add an option to view the available dates in a calendar format too, with checkmarks on days where all the partecipants are available (otherwise if people select too many days of a month it becomes a huge list)

[hashbig]

Nice little app.

A UX enhancement could be to add a wizard like steps so the user knows where they stand in the flow. You can also allow the user to navigate forward or back in the wizard.

It would also be nice if you can choose the time with the dates.

[ryandvm]

Very nice. Was just thinking about building an LLM-assisted version of this where it DMs people asking their availability and then figures it all out. This is way more efficient.

[bickeringyokel]

Small "bug". Shows "application error" if you submit empty dates. Nice app though.

[runandrew → bickeringyokel]

Fixed! Thanks for reporting it.

[steviedotboston]

I could see how to choose dates, but I couldn't figure out how to choose times.

[kuga]

Great idea. You might want to disable past days in the calendar.

[glam1234 → kuga]

yeah make to the level you use it for useful scheduling urself first

[Zambyte]

Source code?

[tuktuktuk]

I love the simplicity!

[WalksInTheRain]

Simple and functional

[drBonkers]

Honestly, I still prefer When2Meet. All the input forms are on the first page and HTML is more responsive than SPA stuff.

[niedzielski]

This is great! I would love to see time support. I always use Google Calendar or https://www.worldtimebuddy.com but each is lacking.

[alexander2002]

Nice!